ось

Inherited from Old East Slavic ось (osĭ), from Proto-Slavic *osь (“axle”).

In the sense of "operating system", is an adaptation of the English acronym OS in the same sense.

• IPA^(key): [osʲ]

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ось • (osʹ) f inan (genitive о́си, nominative plural о́си, genitive plural осе́й, relational adjective осево́й)

1. axis
   • 1967, “Song about Bears”, in Кавка́зская пле́нница [Kidnapping, Caucasian Style]‎^[1] (film):

     Где́-то на бе́лом све́те, / Та́м, где всегда́ моро́з, / Тру́тся спино́й медве́ди / О земну́ю о́сь. / Ми́мо плыву́т столе́тья, / Спя́т подо льдо́м моря́, / Тру́тся об о́сь медве́ди, / Ве́ртится земля́.

     Gdé-to na bélom svéte, / Tám, gde vsegdá moróz, / Trútsja spinój medvédi / O zemnúju ósʹ. / Mímo plyvút stolétʹja, / Spját podo lʹdóm morjá, / Trútsja ob ósʹ medvédi, / Vértitsja zemljá.

     Somewhere in the world, / Where it is always cold, / Bears are rubbing their backs, / Against the earth's axis. / The centuries are swimming by, / The seas are sleeping under the ice, / Bears are rubbing against the axis, / The earth is spinning.

2. axle
3. (computer slang) operating system

• вал (val)
• вту́лка (vtúlka)
• сте́ржень (stérženʹ)
• шпи́ндель (špíndelʹ)

• о́бод (óbod)

• полуо́сь f (poluósʹ)

Related via Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-:

• ателье́ n (atelʹjé)
• аксо́н m (aksón)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “ось”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “ось”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 609

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “ось”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902), “ось”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 752
• Kuznetsov, Sergey Alexandrovich (1998), “ось”, in Большой толковый словарь русского языка [Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Norint, →ISBN

A merger of о (o) +‎ се (se) which underwent subsequent reduction.^[1] Cognate with Belarusian вось (vosʹ).

• IPA^(key): [ɔsʲ]

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ось • (osʹ)

1. here (is), this (is), there (is), that (is)

   Synonym: от (ot)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “ось”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “ось”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
• “ось”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)